D181 students qualify for AAU Junior Olympics after cup stacking competition success
Students from Hinsdale Community Consolidated School District 181 performed strongly at a recent cup stacking competition in Buffalo Grove, with participants from The Lane and one student from Madison competing. The district announced on Apr. 18 that all of its relay teams advanced to the finals.
The achievement means nearly all doubles teams, relay teams, and individual competitors from D181 reached the finals and earned podium placements. Almost every student placed in the top ten in at least one event, resulting in invitations to the AAU Junior Olympics scheduled for July in Iowa.
Hinsdale Community Consolidated School District 181 represents schools across DuPage and Cook counties, including Clarendon Hills Middle School, Elm Elementary School, Hinsdale Middle School, Madison Elementary School, Monroe Elementary School, Oak Elementary School, Prospect Elementary School, The Lane Elementary School, and Walker School according to the Illinois Report Card. In the 2019-2020 school year, D181 enrolled 3,743 students as an elementary school district serving grades pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade in Clarendon Hills and DuPage County according to state data.
District data shows there are currently 282 teachers earning an average salary of $94,227 before pension contributions; ninety percent are women and ten percent are men. No teacher had more than ten absences during a school year according to state records. Demographically, D181 is comprised of approximately seventy percent White students; other groups include Black (1.1 percent), Hispanic (6.8 percent), and Asian (15.4 percent) populations as reported by ISBE.
Financially, D181 spent $31,308 per student in 2020 for a total expenditure of $117 million according to official reports. Chronic truancy remains low within the district: four students were classified as chronically truant during the same period—a rate of just 0.1 percent—compared with a statewide average of over nine percent based on ISBE data.
Congratulations were extended to all participating students as well as Coach Jessica Czerniuk.